Re: Warm Bodies Cast
Anastacia Iacono
Staff comb through these reports searching for tidbits to use in a counter-attack. In contrast, I believe average voters neither pay attention to who paid for a mailer or television commercial nor access public databases to find out how much they spent.
The big caveat here likely rests with the journalists and reporters covering elections. Outside the aforementioned political hacks prepping counter-offensives, journalists often represent the most intensive users of disclosure databases.
Sorting through page after page in reports comprising thousands of contributions and expenditures, the news articles produced provide a necessary and vital aggregation component to making any disclosure system functional on a practical basis.
As opposed to the biased Tweets or Facebook posts blasted out by competing campaigns, most reporters attempt to abide by their charge to remain objective. Assuming enough warm bodies and bandwidth to provide a full analysis, journalists providing unbiased information and transparency is the critical benefit to transparency bills such as this one.
Closing the gap between primary and general election disclosure requirements and mandating disclaimers is not the end-all-be-all of campaign finance reform. It likely will only make a small impact, if any, on the electoral process for most Coloradans. But it is a step in the right direction.
Standing Down Straight for Actors (SDS) is a method of body-and-voice training that teaches people to speak, sing, and move both more relaxedly and - in a seeming paradox - more powerfully. To discover how to do monologues and scenes in this relaxed-but-powerful way without strain and without injury, we study the anatomy of the body. We do this to discover how Nature has constructed the body to work rather than how our too-often misguidedly overthinking human mind thinks the body should work. Knowing how to use our voices and bodies according to the laws of Nature can not only unlock the physical-emotional energy in our acting. It can also unlock this energy in our humanity. That is, the work of this class involves discovering how being vulnerable, grounded, and direct can fuel being vulnerable, grounded, and direct as a person as well as an actor. Describing with more particularity the physical-emotional work of the class . . . . SDS explores how the human body is designed to work with gravity than against gravity. That is, by learning slowly - to emphasize, learning slowly - how to use gravity's cost-free, always-available support, we explore how to perform any movement or vocalization more by letting go of the muscle-encased bones of our body than by hypertensely holding on to them. In sum, we learn to work with greater efficiency. Working with greater efficiency means learning how to use the least amount of energy - emotional as well as physical energy - to complete a task. A synonym for working in a more efficient way is working in a less is more wayIn SDS, we apply this less-is-more way of working to our warm-up exercises. Given the goal of letting go of our bones rather than holding on to them, these exercises focus on teaching our bones - which we'll learn to identify the form and function of in the anatomy-focused part of class - to gently give in to the downward pull of gravity rather than hypertensely resist its downward pull. Toward this goal, we learn how to free our bones go where they want to go instead of where we - possibly influenced by a previous, anti-gravity instruction - think they should go. To help get our heads around this admittedly quite challenging giving-in-rather-than-holding-on point of view, we - again - slow down. We slow down maybe a bit more than we speeding multitaskers might want to in order to weave the following three actions into the exercises: 1) exhale so as to release unneeded physical and emotional tensions; 2) let go of the bones of the body by sensing where gravity "wants" them to go: down3) team up the movement of the eyes, hands, and voice so that, in unison, theycan direct us to get what we want with LESS physical and emotional strain and MORE physical and emotional power.